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I actually like the Illustrious armor (light ascended), but Seer armor, Elonian armor and Charr T3 cultural armors are also very cool. I'd say the flame legion light set is also good looking but i've had it for too long and i'm sick of looking at it hahahhaa.

There are none in my honest opinion. There's no good light armour in this game.

Headgear: There is either that what I got on, the reaper hood, or that Seer's one which I think is a blindfold.

Body/chest: Other than what I got on which is the Kodan top, I can't find any. It's either bras or more covered than a nun. Kodan I just lived with because it's short sleeved and have a decent look. I still loathe the low cut that I can't even hide well because it cuts down so low you still see a "Crack in the window" to my kitten chest.

Legs: The worst of the 3 armours. I'm either in panties, or I have a cape behind my pants, or both panties with cape behind the panties. It's atrocious and really disappointing. Can't find a decent pair of pants (and no embroided still cut out the hips because "reasons" that I don't bloody understand.

The ONLY thing I like about light armour? Underwater has a water mask that are like hairpins that stick on the top of your head.
Which looks really cool and kind of makes it look like you breathe underwater. BUT EVEN WITH THAT, I kind of wish I could use the reaper hood underwater or something so I can keep consistant with not showing my face on my character.

@Ayumi Spender.1082 said:
There are none in my honest opinion. There's no good light armour in this game.

Headgear: There is either that what I got on, the reaper hood, or that Seer's one which I think is a blindfold.

Body/chest: Other than what I got on which is the Kodan top, I can't find any. It's either bras or more covered than a nun. Kodan I just lived with because it's short sleeved and have a decent look. I still loathe the low cut that I can't even hide well because it cuts down so low you still see a "Crack in the window" to my kitten chest.

Legs: The worst of the 3 armours. I'm either in panties, or I have a cape behind my pants, or both panties with cape behind the panties. It's atrocious and really disappointing. Can't find a decent pair of pants (and no embroided still cut out the hips because "reasons" that I don't bloody understand.

The ONLY thing I like about light armour? Underwater has a water mask that are like hairpins that stick on the top of your head.
Which looks really cool and kind of makes it look like you breathe underwater. BUT EVEN WITH THAT, I kind of wish I could use the reaper hood underwater or something so I can keep consistant with not showing my face on my character.

Triumphant armors have short sleeves like koda but you can only get it from pvp or wvw, I don't know.
As for pants, our only option is ascalon performer and embroidered, or buttcapes. But even those two have cape, even if they're small.
Most helm are ugly on every weights and race. I usually stick to cat ears

@Ayumi Spender.1082 said:
There are none in my honest opinion. There's no good light armour in this game.

Headgear: There is either that what I got on, the reaper hood, or that Seer's one which I think is a blindfold.

Body/chest: Other than what I got on which is the Kodan top, I can't find any. It's either bras or more covered than a nun. Kodan I just lived with because it's short sleeved and have a decent look. I still loathe the low cut that I can't even hide well because it cuts down so low you still see a "Crack in the window" to my kitten chest.

Legs: The worst of the 3 armours. I'm either in panties, or I have a cape behind my pants, or both panties with cape behind the panties. It's atrocious and really disappointing. Can't find a decent pair of pants (and no embroided still cut out the hips because "reasons" that I don't bloody understand.

The ONLY thing I like about light armour? Underwater has a water mask that are like hairpins that stick on the top of your head.
Which looks really cool and kind of makes it look like you breathe underwater. BUT EVEN WITH THAT, I kind of wish I could use the reaper hood underwater or something so I can keep consistant with not showing my face on my character.

Triumphant armors have short sleeves like koda but you can only get it from pvp or wvw, I don't know.
As for pants, our only option is ascalon performer and embroidered, or buttcapes. But even those two have cape, even if they're small.
Most helm are ugly on every weights and race. I usually stick to cat ears

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How hard is those Skirmish and Memories of battle is to get? This coming from someone who does 0 WvW and don't like PvP in general. That top is perfect for me:
As for that outfit you have on in the image, seeing it makes those Ascalonian pants not look like kitten, what's the name of those shoes? Please don't tell me it's WvW/PvP also

As for that outfit you have on in the image, seeing it makes those Ascalonian pants not look like kitten, what's the name of those shoes? Please don't tell me it's WvW/PvP also

They're Council ministry shoes from caudecus dungeon

There's a triumphant armor reward track in wvw. If you don't care about time, you could do the easy wvw daily every day they come up to get some points toward it.
Or try to find a commander and use a booster to get the most point possible, or even just do edge of the mist. That's what I did for my last gift of battle, I just went to EotM every saturday afternoon for 1 hour with boosters and followed the zerg.

Memories of battle can be bought on the TP
Skirmish claim ticket need to be won doing wvw. You need tier 3 participation to start getting them i think, which isn't very hard if you find a commander and follow the zerg around.

When I get home I'll upload my Necro, shes a Power Reaper with Demon Masqe, Bladed Shoulder/Gloves/Legs, Carapace Chest, The boot skin that you get from crafted ascended boots with Enameled Crimson and Shadow Abyss dyes. Abbadon Great Sword/Axe/Dagger.

Especially on female characters. I made my mesmer a charr in no small part because of that --- though finding something that looks good and doesn't clip on a charr is a challenge too. Even their own T3 tail-clips, a fact I'll never stop being salty about.

I do like the lllustrious set. It's one of the few that deserve to be called armor and aren't too in-your-face different from the male version, i.e. no BS underwear parade.

Especially on female characters. I made my mesmer a charr in no small part because of that --- though finding something that looks good and doesn't clip on a charr is a challenge too. Even their own T3 tail-clips, a fact I'll never stop being salty about.

I do like the lllustrious set. It's one of the few that deserve to be called armor and aren't too in-your-face different from the male version, i.e. no BS underwear parade.

Thats the reason why I made a human female Necromancer.

I do plan on making a male Char though as they are awesome and beastly.

As for that outfit you have on in the image, seeing it makes those Ascalonian pants not look like kitten, what's the name of those shoes? Please don't tell me it's WvW/PvP also

They're Council ministry shoes from caudecus dungeon

There's a triumphant armor reward track in wvw. If you don't care about time, you could do the easy wvw daily every day they come up to get some points toward it.
Or try to find a commander and use a booster to get the most point possible, or even just do edge of the mist. That's what I did for my last gift of battle, I just went to EotM every saturday afternoon for 1 hour with boosters and followed the zerg.

Memories of battle can be bought on the TP
Skirmish claim ticket need to be won doing wvw. You need tier 3 participation to start getting them i think, which isn't very hard if you find a commander and follow the zerg around.

While just previewing, it looks so much like Medium Armour... I need to aim for this.
Will check out Edge of the mists tomorrow if I can't see a commander running on the other maps. I'll aim for those boots 1st as it seem that PvP reward track that I guess went on randomly as I never knew about those rewards was set to Caudecus and it's almost done.

It's okay to wear low-level pants, no one is judging you because of that (and if they do they're insecure)
But you have touched on an issue though; there don't really seem to be enough pants options for light armour.

I wanted a more armoured light class set - but nothing too ridiculous (cough cough bladed cough cough) so I opted for mixtures of some Koda, some Radiant, and some Leystone. Overall I like the look as it looks armoured, but, has enough light material too look like cloth.

These are some outfits I have been rotating on my characters over the years. Notice the repeat of certain motifs: sometimes I loved a certain theme so badly yet wanted to refresh the look every few months, that ends up a few similar looking outfits in this post.

It’s difficult to appreciate when everything that wears light armor is generally seen on a human female that’s either an edgy scarf and earmuff wearing character who’s for some reason cold but wearing nothing but a bikini or some also scantily clad fantasy style armor. There are plenty of variations but it just depends on your taste. My Mesmer had a pretty sweet genie look before I sold my cosmic infusion to afford a guild upgrade.

My ele is is sylvari and usually wears ley armor which looks pretty good.

One problem is that the male and female are always different versions and some would look better with the other genders style. But that’s for all armor types.

My Scepter/Warhorn Ele, severly crippled by the lack of choices of pants.

And my Necro, dualwielding her hands. (I still need the severed dagger skin for dualwielding hands to be effective...)

Overall Light Armor has the least variety among the 3 Armor types, we're either skimpy or Schoolgirls/Librarians. I wonder why we almost never see Males in light armor, probably because it just doesn't look very good, but that's just my guess.

As the old worlds fall behind
Our spirit reaches wide
With no fear breathing new life
Awaken from the dark dark slumber

Wintersun - Awaken from the dark slumber (Spring) - Part II The Awakening

I don't have a screenshot right now but my ele sylvari is using the T1 cultural armor, the "dragonfly" wings (can't remember the name) backpack from gemstore, aurora and incinerator. She's all blue/purple. The Aurora aura is really pretty on her. My asura ele wears T3 top, some PoF pants and the 1st fractal backpack, with gold fractal sword and incinerator.
Oh and I have a human female mesmer, wearing some gemstore top, arah pants, light of dawyna backpack, sunrise and... I don't remember anything else. She's my oldest character and I rarely play her.

I cannot decide for one armor having a better look than another, simply because none of my toons have an armor with all 6 pieces being from the same armor type.

However, it is true that there are two types of human armor for which I use almost all pieces. So, I could define them as preferred ones in term of full armor maybe:

The human light cultural armor (this one has - to my taste - the only really nice looking shoes).

The human feathered armor.

That said, fact remains that I always mix, and for me, it would be easier to tell about my preferred armor pieces, tops and bottoms, like the Carapace top, the winged bottom, and many others...

Generally, I do love quite a lot of the light armors. This is far from being the case for medium and heavy armors. With those, it is even a problem to arrange a look I like, and I mostly use outfit on my toons wearing medium and heavy armors.

There are two that I happen to like. First is the profane set. Everything except the shoulders is pretty good. It looks more like leather armor than any sort of dress. It also happens to be bootylicious (not shown). It is one of the few light armor sets that looks good from behind, and not just from the front. I have aurora shoes on there as well. In general, the light armor classes have some of the best shoes.

Though it is also hard to knock the minimalism of apprentice pants and feathery vestments.

"Self awareness is knowing when you're sitting at the throne of ignorance." --Leo G.

I really would appreciate to have some more male light armors that has more skin visible. Now only the females have this option. Except for a Neanderthal look but that's not something I like on my Elly.

Ascalon Will Prevail!

Out of the three armor types and being a Charr player, I am sure others feel the same as I do... not much really looks good on a Charr. I really wish that would change -.-; It's SO hard to dress my Charr characters in light armor that I often opt for outfits because at least some of those actually fit them properly.

@Fengzhou.9853 said:
Out of the three armor types and being a Charr player, I am sure others feel the same as I do... not much really looks good on a Charr. I really wish that would change -.-; It's SO hard to dress my Charr characters in light armor that I often opt for outfits because at least some of those actually fit them properly.

@kajoken.1630 said:
My Norn Necro wearing a combination of T1 and T2 cultural armor. I kinda like the cleavage xD

Never knew female Norns could get that ripped/buffed.

JESUS.... Why does your character have such a beautiful rippling body with more muscles in her ear then I have in my stomach....

Now that is a strong character lol

You can pick a ripped version, but it looks more "cut" because he's definitely using reshade to increase contrast. (You can tell the picture is grainy and darker).
That's why the muscles look better defined than usual.